Recreation Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old recreation quotes, recreation sayings, and recreation proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Miguel de Cervantes
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. John Wanamaker
The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation. Rex Hunt
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. Edward Bellamy
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The days a man spends fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth. In other words, if I fish today, that should be added to the amount of time I get to live. That's the way I look at recreation. George Bush
Certain forms of recreation are needful and useful; but it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Spill not the morning, the quintessence of the day, in recreation; for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauces. Thomas Fuller
“Recreation", which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent. Thomas Mann
For every creation, there is an equal and opposite recreation. P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Blaise Pascal
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. Samuel I. Prime
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands. Dorothy Thompson
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break. Elizabeth Prentiss
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build. Harry Allen Overstreet
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. Francis Quarles
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge. Joseph Hall
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. Brigham Young
Let our recreations be innocent and pursued with moderation: and never let us suffer irregular indulgences to expose our character to derision and contempt Unknown
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world. Benton MacKaye
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. John Locke
Well let's break the word down, shall we. Re-create, to create again, begin again, to start over. People need to do that. Work is fine, but every now and then you got to take a break and recreate. Cute Boy God
Recreation, as the word indicates, is recuperation of energy. No demand of human nature is more urgent or less to be escaped. John Dewey
Recreation at its highest point cannot be thought of as opposed to, but as a complement of, work. J.B.Nash
If you want to know what a child is like, watch him in his play. if you want to know an adult, watch him in his recreation. J.B. Nash